Just purchased a Dell Poweredge T300 at a bargain price, and upgraded BIOS to latest version, i.e. 1.5.2. I thought then: okay, since Dell added support for Windows 2008 R2, there should be SLIC 2.1 table ... Installed W2k8, cert, set lic. key, and registered (with -ato command) and ... licence failed WTF ??? extracted BIOS from exe provided by Dell, qot a .BIN and a .HDR. And how to repack, was a nice question ... without any answer! Then, just read this thread, using asset utility to set an asset tag at PASS:12/31. ... True, messages are a bit frightening, but it works! In this server, unlike old Dells (GX520/620/745/D610) that have an asset field, this one is not used. Again, thanks! Tags for Google search (that is, to help others to find an answer quicker than me): Dell Poweredge T310 Slic 2.1
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Tried this on a PowerEdge 2900 and had no luck. Booted with the CD that has the dell software on it. type "asset PASS:12/31" and press enter... type "asset" to see that the asset tag is indeed entered. Ctrl-Alt-Del Says it's in manufacturer mode Ctrl-Alt-Del again Boots into server2008 but slic toolkit still unchanged. Am I missing a step?
Silly me, Sebus linked me to a chinese post that showed me the error of my ways. using "ASSET PASS: 1234" without the quotes worked and validated it.
That is strange as asset is DOS executable, so it makes no difference what case you type it in, as DOS is not case-sensitive...
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had success with a Dell r710 official bios 6.4.0 i found 2 separate good examples of this working (put url in google translate): hxxp://hi.baidu.com/chinasjy/item/7d93dfcba3987b16b77a2431 hxxp://blog.csdn.net/yanshurong/article/details/6819549 long/short story: get a copy of SvctagV3.4.rar (google for it) boot dell r710 to msdos run "ASSET PASS: 1234" you will get this sort of output: ASSET - Version 2.09 (C) Copyright 1993-2004 DELL Inc. About to chang the Asset Tag. Are you sure [y, n] y Service Tag => 4YH8 12X Asset Tag => PASS: 1234 all done, reboot server will now boot to manufacturing mode, also it didn't show me 'configuring memory', i got a black screen instead, which was scary as it takes an age to sort it's memory out, the dell logo then popped up, no problem boot to windows, windows activated, no problem, reboot again to get a 'normal' bootup/post, job done --- sorry for links being crap, forum wouldn't let me post them as i need more posts *sigh* --- edit jan 2014 just adding i'v also now done this on a Dell Poweredge 2950 Bios 2.6.1 then upgraded bios to 2.7.0, still works
Just did this on a r610 with 6.4.0 bios = windows not activated. Do I need to use a slp key or something? I did not enter any key during installation. Existing (eval?) key ends with 8w83p
Hello from Germany! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Does NOT work on DELL Latitude E6510 Laptops... :-( Using: ASSET PASS: 1234 sets the tag, but after reboot Win 7 is still not activated.. and yes, Im using the DELL SLP key with cert.. any ideas in this case? BTW: same with Latitude E6410 and E4310 best regards Peter
Hey urie! thx for the link.. The svctag tool reports this error: "This system is not supported by this utility (error 2)" Any ideas in this case? Best regards Peter
Hello Tito... yes, all Latitude / Precision Laptops with model-number ending with "10", "20" and "30" are with UEFI BIOS... maybe same to XPS and Studiom but Im only running Latitude and Precision Laptops. Here are (most) UEFI-BIOS driven Laptops: Latitude-Series: 15,6" E6510 E6520 E6530 R6540 14,4" E6410 E6420 E6430 E6440 13,3" E4310 12,5" E7240
Works with a Poweredge T320 Used the Dellbiosreset.iso file. Burned it to a cd, and booted. Came up with the usual not support message ran: asset /s yourdellservicetaghere asset PASS:12/31 rebooted Booted to Dell 2.3 per slic toolkit. Worked like a charm. Notes - Done on Dell Bios 2.3.3 (most recent available) Done with bios in legacy mode.
Please note that the correct syntax is "ASSET PASS:1234" instead of "ASSET PASS: 1234", there is no space between "PASS:" and "1234"
Folks i have an issues...Need assiatance I recently bought a use Dell T410 ....originally it shipped with NO OS ...the guy I bought it from installed 2012 datacenter form me and activated it Installed Hyperv and Windows 2008 R2 with Dell DVD..but they wont activate Please help! Physical Hos: I modded the bios (dellbiosreset (asset PASS:12/31) to expose the SLIC table SLIC Toolkit says it has SLIC 2.1 But No OEM certificate (tried installing SLIC 2.1 certificate but no go) Please help! Many thanks in advance
The certificate must match the SLIC table, so, it's only a matter of using the correct one. Big OEMs have multiple in use. The third component, the OEM:SLP product key, only needs to match the SKU. Any valid OEM:SLP key works, as long as it isn't blacklisted. By the way, Server 2008 R2 is Windows 7, not Vista.